Saturday, April 22, 2017

An increasing number of private medical groups now are offering ‘concierge care’, charging a monthly or yearly membership fee, and then providing nearly unlimited care at rates that are dramatically lower than insurance premiums. Physicians and nurse practitioners in these groups are free to treat patients as they see fit, not as directed by insurance companies. –GEG

When Marxist Democrats under Dear Leader Obama decided to allow the federal government to completely take over the health coverage industry, they did so knowing that everyone at some time in their lives will need health care.

On that point, of course, the Marxists were right.

But Democrats also believed that they would ensconce within the
authoritarian federal bureaucracy for all time complete government
control of the type, kind, and amount of health care Americans could and
would receive, simply by deciding what would – and would not – be paid
for.

His first date with his future wife was spent in a
New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with
Hunter S. Thompson. He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King
Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech. He went to China with Richard M.
Nixon and walked away from Watergate unscathed. He survived
Iran-Contra, too, and sat alongside Ronald Reagan at the Reykjavík
Summit. He invaded America’s living rooms and pioneered the rhetorical
combat that would power the cable news age. He defied the establishment
by challenging a sitting president of his own party. He captured the
fear and frustration of the right by proclaiming a great “culture war”
was at hand. And his third-party candidacy in 2000 almost certainly
handed George W. Bush the presidency, thanks to thousands of Palm Beach,
Florida, residents mistakenly voting for him on the “butterfly ballot”
when they meant to back Al Gore.

If not for his outsize ambition, Pat Buchanan might be the closest
thing the American right has to a real-life Forrest Gump, that patriot
from ordinary stock whose life journey positioned him to witness,
influence and narrate the pivotal moments that shaped our modern world
and changed the course of this country’s history.

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President Trump promised Friday that the administration would
announce a tax reform plan on Wednesday, one that would include major
tax cuts.

"We'll be having a big announcement on Wednesday having to do with
tax reform," Trump said at an executive order signing at the Treasury
Friday afternoon. "The process has begun long ago, but it really
formally begins on Wednesday."

Ann Coulter condemns Berkeley protestors who have committed "viewpoint
discrimination" and hurt her reputation. Coulter talked to Sean Hannity
about the monetary damage done to her -- hotel and security costs -- and
the result a "beta male" can do with a weapon to a 99-pound woman.

Berkeley canceled Coulter's speech to the university, then decided to reschedule it to another date at another venue. Coulter has said she will deliver her speech on the date that was originally set
as the new date would coincide with a period of time where students
would not be on campus. Coulter referred to the contract she made with
the University to explain her decision to hold the speech on the
original date. From her Thursday night appearance on the FOX News
Channel:

The University of Southern California has apparently identified the
person who put up a “No Black People Allowed” sign and a Confederate
flag on campus as a black man who’s not studying at the university.

According to The Tab,
the university’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) is currently
questioning the man, suspecting he recently put up the inflammatory
placard together with a Confederate flag and “#MAGA” – meaning President
Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”.

The student outlet reported that the man isn’t “affiliated with the
university” and acted because of disagreement with someone. The man was
supposedly identified by DPS after a security camera recorded the
incident.

As we come up to President Trump’s 100th day in office
there appears to be a great divide in terms of interpretation of Trump
positions. This week, President Trump began pushing with full force his
“Buy American, Hire American” program, which has been clarified as being
one of the more important elements of the economic nationalist program.

The three parts of “Buy American, Hire American” are as follows:

American companies should only hire American labor.

Any government contract should go to an American company.

To protect American producers from “domestic competition”, we should revoke/alter international trade agreements.

Some of the things to keep in mind that are extremely important as this program develops:

Months before Donald Trump blew up American politicswith
his surprise win in November, he did the same thing to the conservative
media. Through much of the campaign, two very different media moguls
with colliding visions for the Republican Party vied for Trump’s soul:
Roger Ailes, the longtime president and CEO of Fox News, and Steve
Bannon, the executive chairman of the populist online tabloid Breitbart.
Both were angling to be the media Svengali whispering in Trump’s ear.

At one point, it seemed they might have been allies: Bannon worked to
insinuate himself at Fox, and Ailes’ network aired some of his populist
documentaries. Then came the first Republican primary debate in August
2015, when Megyn Kelly, Fox’s feisty prime-time anchor, hammered the
candidate from all sides. It was at that moment that Bannon says his
relationship with Ailes began to sour. “The big rift between Breitbart
and Fox was all over Megyn Kelly. She was all over Trump nonstop,”
Bannon said in an interview. He says he warned Ailes that Kelly would
betray him. “I told him then, I said, ‘She’s the devil, and she will
turn on you.’”

The Trump administration
put nine of the country’s top sanctuary cities on notice Friday that
they could soon have to give up some federal funds unless they can prove
they are no longer thwarting Homeland Security’s efforts to deport
illegal immigrants.

The entire state of California is being
targeted, as are the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Las
Vegas, New Orleans and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Cook County in Illinois and
Miami-Dade County in Florida round out the list.

In letters to
each of the nine jurisdictions the Justice Department said they signed
documents last year, when they applied for Byrne Justice Assistance
Grant money, saying they complied with a section of federal law that
demands cooperation when immigration agents ask for it.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions put known gang members back on the streets to
rejoin the West Side gang in Escondido,” Sessions said while flanked by
Kelly and Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “Just the other
day it was reported that a local prosecutor in California went so far
as to intentionally lower violent and heinous domestic abuse charges
against a repeat offender so that the abuser wouldn’t be deported.”

You may have
been following the massive protests that have been occurring in
Venezuela. There hasn’t been as much coverage as there should be, in
part perhaps because protesters actually coming out against socialism
isn’t a concept American media likes to cover.

The poor people have been starving and the country is on the verge of collapse.

Hundreds of thousands have been protesting the socialist government of President Maduro for weeks.
But MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow figured out the real cause for the protests on her show last night and who the true culprit was.

A group of people get together, generally under the organization of a
for-profit entity, and each person or unit pays into a pool. The
purpose of the pool is to pay out to any paying member of the risk pool
SHOULD AN ADVERSE EVENT HAPPEN TO THEM. In a sane world, these adverse
events are rare, unforeseen and catastrophic or potentially
catastrophic.

The more people that pay into the pool, the lower the premiums can be
– to a point. Why? Because across large groups, analysts and
statisticians within the for-profit company can estimate, with greater
and greater precision, the number of adverse incidents that will
probably occur within the risk pool group. This is called ACTUARIAL
SCIENCE, and a person who studies the frequency or risk of certain
events across large groups or populations is called an ACTUARY. So, the
larger the risk pool, the more precise and accurate the actuarial
studies can be. It is impossible to predict what will happen to one
individual person over the course of, say, the next year. HOWEVER, it
is possible, and morally licit, to say that over the course of the next
year, within a group of, say, 100,000 people, how many can reasonably be
expected to be diagnosed with cancer, get in a serious car wreck, have a
heart attack, be run over by a Zamboni machine, etc.

As a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains — over
some of the highest hurdles and in a very short span of time — of any
racial group in mankind's history. What's the evidence? If one totaled
up the earnings of black Americans and considered us as a separate
nation with our own gross domestic product, we would rank among the 20
richest nations. It was a black American, Gen. Colin Powell, who once
headed the world's mightiest military. Black Americans are among the
world's most famous personalities, and a few are among the world's
richest people.

The significance of these and other
achievements is that at the end of the Civil War, neither a slave nor a
slave owner would have believed such progress would be possible in a
little over a century — if ever. As such, it speaks to the intestinal
fortitude of a people. Just as importantly, it speaks to the greatness
of a nation in which such gains were possible. Nowhere else on the face
of the earth would such progress be possible except in the United States
of America. The big and thorny issue that confronts our nation is how
these gains can be extended to the one-third or more of the black
population for whom they have proved elusive.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.